Thursday, January 22, 2015

Planning The Playground Games For Children

By Enid Hinton


Children often learn a lot of life lessons while they are playing with other children during play time. Of course it is the job of the teacher to ensure that the students know how to play the playground games that were planned for them and to explain to them why the games were played. Here are a few of the most popular activities that kids just love.

Now one game that is a big hit among any student that can run whether male or female would of course be tag. Now everyone is probably familiar with tag as the game wherein the it would chase other players to make them it. This is one of the games that would really make a kid tired and would also teach him about how to cooperate too.

Of course another classic playground game would be none other than tug of war. In tug of war, the class is divided into two teams and both teams have to compete with each other by pulling a rope to their respective sides. Now this is a game that will teach children that no man is an island and teamwork is very important.

Another popular game that can be played on the playground is of course monkey in the middle. This is a game wherein one person is in between two teams who are going try to hit him with a ball. Once one person hits him, he will then become the monkey in the middle and the one in the middle has to just avoid getting hit by the ball.

Now another game that needs quite a big number of players would be the game get the flag. Now in this game, the class would first be divided into two big teams that would each have their own respective flags. Now the whole objective of the game is for one to try to grab the flag of the opposing team and not get touched by any of them otherwise he will go to jail.

A less strenuous game but equally as fun one is known as croquet. Now croquet is all about the players being able to hit certain colored balls through colored hoops with a hammer. This will teach kids how to think tactically in order to make them smarter.

Now another game that is a little bit more strenuous and is more for the older kids would be the famous dodgeball. Dodgeball is a game wherein a group of people are split into two teams and there are a number of balls that are put in the middle of them. The objective is to grab as many balls as possible and hit the opposing players until there are none left.

Now if one would want to plan some great activities for children, these games are really good. However, a teacher should never forget that the students must also learn the purpose of playing these games. It is important that the teacher would tell them what values are learned while playing.




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